On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:28:36 pm Cassiano Leal wrote: > On 15 February 2011 15:23, Tim Folger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 15 February 2011 03:23:51 Tim Folger wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I just ran one of my weekly upgrades last night (I'm using sid with > >> > the 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem kernel). Now compositing no longer works with > >> > kde (4.4.5). When I click "resume compositing," I get a message > >> > saying "Compositing has been suspended by another application." > >> > glxinfo | grep render says direct rendering is working. But when I > >> > run glxgears, I only get text output, without the animated gears. > >> > > >> > My middle mouse button also stopped working after the upgrade, i.e., I > >> > can't use it to copy and paste; can't open new tabs in any browser. > >> > (The mouse works perfectly in my other two computers, both of which > >> > still have kde 3.5.10 installed.) I'm using the radeon driver. None > >> > of these problems existed before last night's full-upgrade, so the > >> > upgrade definitely broke a few things, and I don't know how to fix > >> > them. > >> > > >> > Thanks for any suggestions... > >> > > >> > Tim > >> > >> Look at the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i opengl'. Does it say something > >> like "OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4"? libgl1-mesa-dri switched > >> over to Gallium drivers for many radeon Cards. Maybe that causes your > >> problem with compositing. > > > > You're right--it does say "Open renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD > > RS880." is there anything I can do to get compositing working again? And > > would this also explain why the middle click on my mouse no longer > > works? > > I'm seeing a similar problem here with a Radeon Mobility 4200. The > renderer string is the same as yours. > > Desktop Effects "work", but a bit slow. If I run glxinfo with effects > on, X crashes and restarts. Same for pressing Ok in the Desktop > Effects KCM. > > My middle-click works, though, so I'd say that it's probably not > related to OpenGL at all (and shouldn't, anyway). > > So, does anyone in the list have any suggestion as to what can be done > to fix these issues? > > Thanks! > Cassiano Leal
Okay, so I fixed my middle-mouse button problem (actually, an emulated middle button--right and left click together) after reading this ubuntu bug report, which apparently applies to debian as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/710762. A workaround was suggested in the bug report: Create an xorg.conf file with the following: Section "InputClass" Identifier "middle button emulation class" MatchIsPointer "on" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" EndSection Now the middle-button emulation works again. But compositing still doesn't work. I had high hopes today after doing an upgrade, because I noticed that an update for xserver-xorg-video-radeon was available. But no luck after the upgrade--still no compositing. Same message from system settings: "Compositing has been suspended by another application." Thanks, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
